The Worlds Most Powerful Battleships
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Author | : David Ross |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499465998 |
The World’s Most Powerful Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed and fought in the last 500 years. Beginning with King Henry VIII’s flagship, the book covers all the main periods of battleship development, including the great sail ships, steam-driven warships, and the great battleships of the two world wars. Each entry includes a brief description of the battleship’s development and history, a profile view, key features, and specifications. Packed with more than 200 artworks and photographs, The World’s Most Powerful Battleships is a colorful guide for the military historian and naval warfare enthusiast.
Author | : Jan Morris |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1631493426 |
An extraordinary—and strikingly illustrated—reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai—the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised for battle in the spring of 1945—when even Japan’s last desperate technique of arms, the kamikaze, was running short—Yamato arose as the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito. Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent ship itself—from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa—but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendor and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy.
Author | : John Ballard |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445646536 |
In this readable and informative book, John Ballard tells the story of ten of the most significant ships in the Royal Navy.
Author | : Antony Preston |
Publisher | : Conway |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A serious study of the reasons why some warships have achieved bad reputations. It covers the period from 1860 to the present day, and looks at a wide range of nationalities and ship-types. Some examples are the Russian Popoffkas; the French battleship 'Brennus'; and the British vessel 'Captain'.
Author | : Akira Yoshimura |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9784770024008 |
A tribute to the men who achieved this engineering marvel and a testament to the excesses of bureaucratic militarism, "Battleship Musashi" recounts the human drama behind the building of the largest battleship in the world.of photos. of technical drawings.
Author | : Robert M. Farley |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479405574 |
From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato, here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship. Separate essays and sidebars look at events and lore that greatly affected battleships.
Author | : Yoshida Mitsuru |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1988-12-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612512089 |
This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armor and having the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. This classic in the Anatomy of the Ship series contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history. This is followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 600 perspective and three-view drawings, and 30 photographs. Such a handsome and thorough work is guaranteed to impress modelmakers, ship enthusiasts, and naval historians.
Author | : Robert Frederick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Battleships |
ISBN | : 9780755464883 |
Author | : Iain Ballantyne |
Publisher | : Ipso Books |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504059158 |
With extensive eyewitness accounts, the author of Killing the Bismarck vividly reconstructs the day British soldiers sank the infamous Nazi battleship. May 26, 1941. After a desperate chase lasting three days and more than seventeen hundred miles, Britain’s Home Fleet would finally close in on the world’s most powerful battleship, the very ship that sank the Royal Navy’s battlecruiser HMS Hood. The German battleship Bismarck was literally in a class by itself, being one of two newly-designed Bismarck-class ships in the German fleet. But it would soon face, and ultimately lose, a brutal fight to the finish involving more than five thousand men of the Royal Navy and twenty-six thousand men of Hitler’s Kriegsmarine. Historian Iain Ballantyne spent years conducting interviews with surviving veterans who had been present on that fateful day. Published here for the first time, alongside a compelling narrative of the final twenty-four hours of the mission to sink the Bismarck, are transcripts of those interviews, offering the unique eyewitness accounts of Royal Navy sailors who participated in one of the most significant sea battles of World War II.
Author | : Janusz Skulski |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781472830944 |
HJMS Fuso was designed in 1911, the first Japanese super-dreadnought within the "8 x 8" program. She was the first of four twin battleships with her sister ship, Yamashiro, and the "improved Fuso-class" Ise and Hyuga. Commissioned in 1915, Fuso, with 30,600 tons trial displacement and twelve 356mm guns in her main armament, was the biggest and most powerful battleship in the world. In twenty-nine years of service, Fuso underwent two major reconstructions and modernizations. Her distinctive silhouette, with the highest pagoda tower in the Imperial Navy, was visible in many operations of the Imperial Japanese Grand Fleet during the Pacific War. This book compares Fuso with Yamashiro, showing the differences in the way that the two ships were designed and equipped. Both ships met their demise during the Battle of Leyte Gulf when they went down in the Surigao Strait, targeted by torpedoes and gunfire from U.S. battleships and cruisers. Janusz Skulski's anatomies of three renowned ships of the 20th century Japanese navy are among the most comprehensive of the Anatomy series, with hundreds of meticulously researched drawings of the ships. This new edition is a genuine "Super Anatomy" containing the most detailed renditions of these ships ever seen.